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"Today marks the launch of Victory is Life, the latest expansion for Cryptic's free-to-play MMORPG Star Trek Online. Themed around the locales and story of the Deep Space Nine television series, the expansion follows up with familiar faces from the beloved TV in the decades after the end of the Dominion War—and the actors who played them, too. René Auberjonois, who played DS9's chief of security Constable Odo throughout the entirety of Deep Space Nine's TV run, is one of the latest.

Auberjonois is joining 11 other members of the show's cast to reprise their roles in the new expansion's storyline, which sees players head through the wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant to investigate a mysterious marauding new species called the Hurq, threatening to bring war to the quadrant once again. To celebrate the launch of Victory is Life, io9 spoke to Auberjonois about getting the chance to play Odo again, as well as the impact Deep Space Nine has had on science fiction for the last two-and-a-half decades….."Main pagelink